On 2026-03-06 15:01, Robert Elz wrote:
This looks to me not to really be a "hurry and make a change so it can operate next week" but "hurry and make a change that will apply towards the end of the year, but needs to be made now before our authority to do it is removed".
Not sure what is meant by "authority" but that is not the motivation. The motivation is that it's better to change TZDB before the events it describes, rather than changing retroactively. Obviously we can't always be proactive, but proactive is better when possible.
your desire to follow the letter of the law is kind of quaint, given that you changed "EST"
Oh, please, let's not let old beefs derail solutions to new problems....
